Plum Good Chicken Thighs Recipes

Steps:

• Plum Sauce: Use side burner or grill. Heat oil in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Add onions and garlic and cook until soft. Add ginger, chile pepper, cinnamon and cloves and cook for 2 minutes. Add remaining ingredients and cook until plums are soft and mixture has thickened. Place mixture in a food processor and mix until smooth. Let cool.
• Preheat grill. Season chicken with salt and pepper to taste. Grill, on 1 side for 5 minutes, or until golden brown. Turn the chicken over, brush with the sauce and continue grilling for 3 to 4 minutes, turn over and brush with sauce. Continue grilling and brushing with the sauce until the chicken is cooked through, approximately 12 to 15 minutes.

Steps:

• In bowl, toss thighs with five-spice powder and salt. Finely chop green onions (enough to total 2 tbsp.) reserve for garnish. Cut remainder of onions into 1 inch pieces, set aside.
• In skillet, heat oil on medium heat. Add thighs and cook 10 minutes (or until browned/no pink), turning once. Transfer to plate.
• In drippings left in skillet, medium heat, cook 1 inch onion pieces 4 minutes (lightly browned). Stir in broth, jam, vinegar; heat to boiling.
• Reduce heat to medium, put thighs in pan for five-ten minutes or until syrupy. Turn chicken a few times to coat with syrup. Garnish with finely chopped green onions.
• Pairs well with asian themed side dishes, rice, vegetables.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Pat the chicken thighs dry and sprinkle the skin side generously with salt and pepper.
• Add 1 tablespoon oil to a large, high-sided ovenproof skillet and heat over medium-high heat. When the oil is shimmering, add the chicken thighs, skin-side down. (This may have to be done in batches, depending on the size on your chicken thighs, to avoid overcrowding the skillet.) Sprinkle the underside of the chicken generously with salt and pepper. Cook until the chicken skin is golden brown, crispy and easily releases from the pan, 4 to 5 minutes. Flip the chicken and continue to cook for an additional 2 minutes. Remove the chicken to a plate and set aside.
• Turn the heat down to medium-low and add the white wine. Cook, scraping up any brown bits from the bottom of the skillet, until the harsh alcohol smells burns off and the wine has slightly reduced, about 1 minute. Add the frozen onions and garlic. Cook until fragrant, about 2 minutes. Add the chicken stock and 2 tablespoons honey mustard. Stir the mixture until well combined and emulsified. Add the mushrooms and thyme leaves to the skillet and stir to coat the mushrooms in the mixture.
• Turn the heat off. Nestle the chicken into the vegetable mixture. Add the remaining tablespoon honey mustard and tablespoon oil to a small bowl. Whisk to combine. Brush the tops of the chicken thighs with the honey mustard mixture.
• Transfer the chicken to the oven and cook until the vegetables are browned and the chicken is 165 degrees F, 35 to 40 minutes.
• Turn the oven off. Remove the chicken from the oven and add the frozen peas. Stir slightly to submerge them in the sauce. Return the skillet to the oven until the peas are heated through, 2 to 3 minutes.
• To serve, plate the chicken and vegetables and top with the pan sauce.

Steps:

• Pit and quarter black plums.
• Heat and stir chicken stock, red wine vinegar and brown sugar to combine.
• Place chicken thighs and plums in bottom of baking dish. Pour stock over chicken and plums.
• Bake in 350 degree oven for one hour.

Steps:

• Over medium heat in a large skillet, brown chicken in hot oil for about 10 minutes.
• Remove chicken and place in 3-quart baking dish.
• Reserve some of the drippings.
• Drain off all but 1 tablespoon of the fat drippings left in the skillet.
• Add onion, garlic, and gingerroot.
• Cook until this mixture is tender and soft.
• Combine the rest of the ingredients and carefully add to the onion mixture.
• Bring to boiling and then reduce the heat and simmer, covered, for about 5 minutes.
• Carefully pour this mixture over the chicken in the baking dish.
• Bake, uncovered, at 350°F, spooning sauce over chicken occasionally, for 45-55 minutes until the chicken is done.
• Garnish with the green onions.
• *We like our dark meat chicken to be falling off the bone tender, so I usually depart from the original recipe by lowering the heat and cooking for a much longer time. The meat is so soft then and that's how we like it.

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray.
• Season the chicken pieces with salt and pepper to taste and place skin-side-up onto the prepared baking sheet. Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes.
• While the chicken is baking, stir together the plum jam, 1 1/2 teaspoons pepper, ginger, and horseradish in a small bowl. After the chicken has baked 20 minutes, brush with the plum glaze and return to the oven.
• Continue baking until no longer pink at the bone and the juices run clear, 20 to 30 minutes more. An instant-read thermometer inserted near the bone should read 165 degrees F (74 degrees C).

Steps:

• Finely chop 2 tablespoons of green onions and set aside for the garnish. Cut remaining green onions into 1-inch pieces.
• Toss chicken thighs with five-spice powder and salt in a bowl.
• Heat oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add chicken thighs and cook until browned, about 5 minutes per side. Transfer to a plate, leaving drippings in the skillet.
• Cook green onion pieces in the drippings until lightly browned, about 4 minutes. Stir in plum jam, chicken broth, and balsamic vinegar. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium and return thighs to the skillet. Cook until syrupy, turning a few times to coat, about 5 minutes. Garnish with reserved green onions.

Steps:

• Heat a saute pan over medium high heat for 2 minutes or until very hot. Season chicken with salt and pepper.
• Add olive oil to heated pan and swirl around to coat. Sear chicken for 2 to 4 minutes per side. Move around so they don't stick to pan.
• Remove chicken from pan and put on clean plate and set aside. Add chopped shallots to pan and saute for 2 minutes until barely translucent.
• Remove pan from heat and add wine and scrape up bottom of pan.
• Turn heat to low and return pan to heat. Add chutney and chicken stock stirring to mix. Return chicken and any dripping on plate and allow chicken to finish cooking through. (About 7 minutes).
• Serve immediately.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Arrange oranges in a shallow roasting pan, cut sides down. Place chicken over oranges, breast side up. Mix garlic powder and salt; rub over the outside and inside of chicken. Tuck wings under chicken; tie drumsticks together., Roast 1-1/4 hours. Meanwhile, drain plums, reserving liquid. Remove pits from plums. Place plums in a food processor; process until pureed., In a large skillet, heat butter over medium-high heat. Add onion; cook and stir until tender, 3-4 minutes. Add pureed plums and reserved plum liquid; stir in remaining ingredients. , Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, until slightly thickened, stirring occasionally, 10-15 minutes. Remove 3/4 cup mixture for glaze; reserve remaining mixture for sauce., Remove chicken from oven; brush chicken with some of the glaze. Roast until a thermometer inserted in thigh reads 170°-175°, brushing occasionally with remaining glaze, 3/4 to 1-1/4 hours longer. (Cover loosely with foil if chicken browns too quickly.), Remove chicken from oven; tent with foil. Let stand 15 minutes before carving. Reheat reserved sauce. Serve chicken with sauce.

Steps:

• Finely chop 2 tablespoons of green onions and set aside for the garnish. Cut remaining green onions into 1-inch pieces.
• Toss chicken thighs with five-spice powder and salt in a bowl.
• Heat oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add chicken thighs and cook until browned, about 5 minutes per side. Transfer to a plate, leaving drippings in the skillet.
• Cook green onion pieces in the drippings until lightly browned, about 4 minutes. Stir in plum jam, chicken broth, and balsamic vinegar. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium and return thighs to the skillet. Cook until syrupy, turning a few times to coat, about 5 minutes. Garnish with reserved green onions.

Steps:

• In bowl, toss thighs with five-spice powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt. From dark-green end of onions, finely chop enough to equal 2 tablespoons; reserve for garnish. Cut remainder of onions into 1-inch pieces; set aside.
• In 12-inch skillet, heat oil on medium-high until hot. Add thighs and cook 10 minutes or until they're browned and lose their pink color throughout, turning once. Transfer thighs to plate; cover to keep warm.
• In drippings in skillet, on medium, cook 1-inch onion pieces 4 minutes or until lightly browned. Stir in broth, jam, and vinegar; heat to boiling. Reduce heat to medium and cook 3 to 4 minutes or until sauce is syrupy. Return thighs to skillet and turn to coat with sauce.
• Meanwhile, cook beans and rice as labels direct; serve with chicken; sprinkle with reserved onions.